By Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon
Cuba’s
communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist
American academics and university professors as spies and influence
agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week.
Cuban
intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that
includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption
that a percentage of students will eventually move on to positions
within the U.S. government that can provide access to information of use
to the [Cuban intelligence service],” the five-page unclassified FBI report says. It notes that the Cubans “devote a significant amount of resources to targeting and exploiting U.S. academia.”
“Academia
has been and remains a key target of foreign intelligence services,
including the [Cuban intelligence service],” the report conclud…